Music in Colors
Dimitrios G. Margounakis, Dionysios V. Politis, Κωνσταντίνος Μώκος · Advances in multimedia and interactive technologies book series · 2016
The evolutional course of music through centuries has shown an incremental use of chromatic variations by composers and performers for melodies' and music sounds' enrichment. This chapter presents an integrated model, which contributes to the calculation of musical chromaticism. The model takes into account both horizontal (melody) and vertical chromaticism (harmony). The proposed qualitative and quantitative measures deal with music attributes that relate to the audience's chromatic perception. They namely are: the musical scale, the melodic progress, the chromatic intervals, the rapidity of melody, the direction of melody, music loudness, and harmonic relations. This theoretical framework can lead to semantic music visualizations that reveal music parts of emotional tension.